Drummed Up is a community West African drumming group based in the north east of England. We’ve been playing West African rhythms since 2002 and have performed at venues across the north east. Every year we are one of the ‘Bands on the Run’ for the Great North Run, playing outside Gateshead Stadium. Drummed Up is made up of drummers who have attended Mark Barfoot’s West African drumming workshops and is led by Mark. We want to bring the rhythms we learn out to the public to make people smile and dance!

Contact/Bookings:
lordoftheisles@live.com

The world will end, but love and music endureth.

First of all, I live in England.....like so many websites the only choice I had in putting this biog on sound cloud was to tick United Kingdom. 

This is at present a very disunited kingdom. Though I enjoy living in England I am mostly (bloodwise)scottish & , if my life was different right now (coronavirus epidemic aside), I might be living in Scotland or another european country. But enough vague indications of my social & political views......

I’m a musician, visual artist, dancer/actor/director & writer with a leaning towards buddhism & shamanic practice who sees this life as probably the only opportunity I have to learn what it is to be fully human.

I’ve had a sound card pro subscription for a few months now though so far I haven’t used it. I doubt I’ll be listening to much of the music on it as I already have an Apple music account which fully fulfils my varied musical listening needs.

So I’ll be using this sound cloud account mainly to upload to. 

My own music, the Live Rhythms band music (a vehicle for creating live improvised music for 5 Rhythms dancers to move to) occasional workshop audios but mostly audio versions of the chapters of my collaborative online novel Albion’s Children  www.albionschildren.com 

Enough about my sound cloud plans. 

In terms of standard biog info - 

I’m a 72 year old man whose bloodline extends back into scottish, spanish & australian ancestry. I have 3 wonderful daughters & 6 grandchildren. I live with my partner Sally, a talented & beautiful yoga & mindfulness teacher and our miniature Spitz Foxy, outside the village of Warkworth in Northumberland.

I have survived 3 lots of major heart surgery & basically am just grateful to be alive. 

I play saxophone, sitar, hand drums and percussion & sort of know my way round guitar chords. I make visual art in the form of mandalas. www.naturemandala.org

I spend much time in our garden growing fruit, vegetables & flowers. Keeps me sane & grounded.

I dance the 5 Rhythms, do taichi & chikung, practice mindfulness (when I remember),walk our dog Foxy in the woods & on the beaches in this beautiful part of northeast england.

I am still learning what it is to be fully human, something that will continue I imagine until the day I die.........

I’m not that good at replying to digital forms of communication but please do contact me via sound cloud or heartdancing@mac.com if there’s anything you’d like to tell me about my offerings on sound cloud.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Home of the wHO'S nEXT mUSIC family. wHO'S nEXT mUSIC is an independent music promoter & music library. To license any songs or have a beat or piece of music composed for your film or video project, send an e mail to 
gvosounds@gmail.com

In this series I’ll be chatting to friends about their mental health how they cope, their support systems, advice they’ve learnt and advice they’d like to pass on.

I’m Abby Lacey and I’ve suffered for anxiety for as long as I can remember. I’m not a mental health professional but I am an advocate of speaking out and breaking the stigma attached to mental health. 

In 2019, I started Mental Health Mates - Reading, a peer support group organising walks and talks for people suffering from mental illness, along with their family and friends.

Since then, I have made many friends and connected with so many like-minded people, so I thought it would be great to give them a platform to tell their stories. If this podcast can help just one person then my job is done.

1 in 4 is not intended to take the place of professionals. If you need help, there is a number of services available to talk to:

Samaritans – 116 123
Mind – 0300 123 3393
Beat (eating disorders) – 0845 634 1414
Anxiety UK – 08444 775 774
No Panic – 0844 967 4848
SANE – 0845 767 8000
OCD ACTION – 0845 390 6232
Rethink Mental Illness – 0300 5000 927

Holly Marland is a singer, kora player and composer widely acclaimed for her empathetic and engaging approach to music making with different groups and in different locations. This page is a collection of unedited live field recordings compiled during time spent on the Isle of Eigg in Scotland. Holly improvised music in different parts of the island and then recorded them in situe. Holly is currently in Eigg (October 2017) as part of a funded creative sabbatical generously supported by Katherine McGillivray Get a Life Fund.

Welcome to Afriquoi! Live African dance music.
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2015 summer shows announced!

22.5	How The Light Gets In, Hay on Wye
5.6	Songlines Encounters Festival, King's Place, London
13.06.15	Kazimier, Liverpool
14.06.15	Eden Festival, Scotland
16.6.15	St.John's College May Ball, Cambridge
04.07.15	Kelburn Garden Party, Scotland
5.7.15	The Hifi Club, Leeds
17.07.15	Lovebox festival, London
18.7 Beat Herder, Lancashire
26.7 Secret Garden Party, Cambs (Chaiwallahs)
29.8.15	KribisKrabis, Italy
30.8.15	Dimensions Festival, Croatia
3.9.15Outlook Festival, Croatia


Here are 2 vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD99b7PK8mo 
http://youtu.be/XR3zWstmfgs

Please feel free to get in touch here or by emailing
afriquoi@wormfood.co.uk
If you are a DJ and wanna play our tracks we can send you an mp3..... or you can buy Kudaushe + Fiston ft Serocee at www.afriquoi.com

Biography

Live African dance music, fusing Congolese guitar + Gambian kora virtuosity with UK electronic sensibilities to create captivating, beautiful, dancefloor- friendly new music for a new generation of world music fans with one foot in the clubs.



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